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The Daily Nebraskan VOL. XXV. NO. 133. THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926. PRICE i CENTS. HEW COMMITTEE HAS CHARGE OF FRAT COUNCIL Six Men Elected To Have Executive Control Over Fraternity Doings PROMINENT MEN CHOSEN AU Professional Fraternities Gat Voting Membership! Plans Made Far Annual Banquet Election of an executive commit tee of six men to enforce legislation of the Intcr-fraternity Council was the main business at the last meet in? of the Council held Sunday in Temple 202. Of the six men elected to the Com mittee, two were elected for a one jear term, two for a two-year term, and two for a three-year term. Sub sequent elections will be held for the three-year terms. Twelve men were placed In noml nntion for the six places on the com mittee, by a nominating committee composed of Harold Holtz, as chair man, Robt. L. Ferguson, and Ken neth W. Cook. Six Men Put on Committee The following men were elected by ballot: One Year Term, 1926-27 Ralph Weaverling, '11. Dave Erickson, '11. Two Year Term, 1926-28 Dr. R, B. Adams, '02. James Lawrence, '11. Three Year Term, 1926-29 Arthur Dobson, '11. Robt. L. Ferguson, '12. The committee as now operative under the new amendment to the Council constitution will have com plcte and general executive control of all fraternity matters at the Uni versitv. and is expected to insure en. forcement of Council rulings in the future. An amendment to the constitution providing for voting membership for Drofessional fraternities was also passed. According to the present ruling there is now but one cjass of membership in the council, a voting membership, allowed to all social and professional fraternities maintaining houses of residence. The amend' ment received a unanimous ballot Announce Banquet Plans Announcement was made of pre liminarv plans for the annual Inter fraternity banauet to be held at the Scottish Rite Temple, Thursday eve ning, My 13. William Trumbull, '27 Elwood, is the chairman in charge of arrangements. A committee will be announced Wednesday. Scholarship plaques will be award ed at the banauet. and the council hopes to obtain Carl Gray of Oma ha, president of the Union Pacific, railroad, as the principal speaker. Fraternities are urged to cooperate with the Council in getting the at tendance of all fraternity alumni in the city this year, as well as active fraternity members, and fraternity alumni members now connected with the Council. Scholarship Ruling Discussed Discussion of the Council ruling on scholarship took up a part of the discussion period of the meeting. A report indicated that most fraterni ties had complied with the Council ruling in regard to probation. A meeting of the newly formed ex ecutive committee will be held soon, it was announced. Fraternity men regard the election of these men as indicative of the desire of fraterni- (Continued to Page 3). ORR AND WEST TO SPEAK AT FORUM Place of Student Activities in Life Of College To Be Discussed Pro and Con Douglass' Orr, '27, and V. Royce West, '27, both students in the Col lege of Arts and Sciences, will speak on "Student Activities" at the World Forum luncheon at the Grand Hotel Wednesday noon. Orr will speak "Rainst activities, while West will defend the present system. Tickets for the luncheon are on "ale at the Y. M. C. A. office in the Temple and at the Y. W. office in Ellen Smith Hall. They are twenty-five cents. In the discussion of the present day university which have been so frequent during the past two or three years, student activities have been the subject of no little debate. Some hold that activities consume so much of the students' time that there is little left to put on serious school work, which, they maintain, ia the important thing in college. Others defend activities by saying that in them the student receives training of a sort that will stand him in better stead in life after college than would pure academic training. Dean LeRossignol Publishes Book on Practical Principles of Economics Big Sister Board To Conduct Vespers The Big Sister Board will have charge of the Vesper service at 5 o'clock in Ellen Smith Hall on Tuesday evening. Elsa Kerkow, president of the board will be the leader. The services will be held in pre paration for the Big Sister initi ation which will be held at the Agricultural College campus, on Thursday, May 6, at 5 o'clock. Mary Kinney will speak on the point of view of the Big Sister and Marjorie Bone will speak from the point of view of the Lit tlo Sister. Viola Forsell will give a violin solo as the musical num ber of the service. ALUMNI VOTE FOR OFFICERS Mail Out Ballots For Election Of Executives Of Alumni Association NINE PLACES TO FILL Ballots are being mailed out for the election of officers for the Al umni Association of the University. The president, vice-president, mem ber of the executive council and a di rector for each district are to be elected. Ballots must be returned to judges of election in Lincoln before May 28. Candidates for president are; Frank D. Eager, '93, Lincoln, and Verne Hedge, '03, Lincoln. For vice-president, Mrs. E. Horn berger (Marjorie Lichtenwallner) '13 and Mrs. James E. Bednar (Britan nia Daughters) '05, Omaha, are the candidates. Harry C. Cusack, '11, North Bend, and Mrs. Morton Steinhart (Ella Schwake) '12, Nebraska City are the candidates for member of the execu tive council. .. , ' , For director of the first congres sional district, Otto Kotouc, '08, Humboldt and Mrs. John D. Foreman (Marguerite Dye) '16, Alvo, are can didates. L. W. Charlesworth, '15, Omaha and Karl C. Brown, '19, Papillion, are the candidates for director of the second congressional district. For director of the third congres sional district, Edward Huwaldt, '13, Carroll, and Walter R. Raecke, '17, Central City, are the candidates. Josephine Shramek, '24, David City and Mrs. Harvey W. Hess (Edna Hathway) '14, Hebron, are the can didates for director of the fourth congressional district Candidates for director of the fifth congressional district are; Cloyd L. Stewart, '15, Clay Center,' and Harry T. Parker, ex-'04, Has tings. Mrs. Geo. W. Irwin ( Genvieve Welsh) '17, Bridgeport and Mrs. Clifford B. Scott (Marjorie Hessel tine) '20, 0Neil, are the candidates for director of the sixth congression al district. WORK 01! MORRILL HALL PBOGRESSES Excavating Ts Finished and Brick-1 layers Expect Wall To Be Up Soon Work on Morrill Hall, Nebraska's new museum, is progressing nicely. The excavating was finished several days ago, and the bricklayers have been working for the past week. At present about fifty men are working on the building and if the preient weather conditions hold out the walls will be up soon. The building when completed will be three stories high and one of the largest buildings on the campus. It will be a great relief to the present crowded conditions. Thrills Abound In "Spooks" To Be Presented By Players May 7 and 8 The room was plunged into black ness as the chandelier crashed to the floor. The dying man gasped as he sank, pulling the table cover over after him .the vases on it smashing as they fell. Above a distant rumbling some creature shrieked in the night A door creaked, and at the scrape of an unseen foot, a woman choked in terror. It all happened in a play, but what a play! "SDooks." the drama of mystery and thrills, never before produced in Lincoln, will be given by the Uni versity Players at the Orpheum the ater, Friday and' Saturday, May 7 and 8, for the American Legion in place of the usual variety show. It's a play to turn a coyisii dod "First Economics" Giyes View Of the Business World and Discusses Economic Phases In Less Than 200 Words (University News Service) Packing into less than 200 pages the gist of all practical principles of economics, Dean James E. LeRossig nol, of the University college of business administration, in his latest book, "First Economics", recently published by the A. W. Shaw com pany, gives a birds-eye view of the business world, and orients to sci ence and art of economics in its gen eral setting of history, anthropol ogy, politics, and other social sci ences. The anatomy and physiology of complex modern business are dissect ed and held up for minute inspection in forty chapters of rapid sympa thetic survey. "It is important to have a large fraction of the national dividend, but it is far more important to have a dividend to divide," concludes Dean LeRossignol in discussing the vexing question of wages and distri button of the national income. The laborer is better off with 66 percent of a 4-pound loaf than 94 percent of a 2-pound loaf, he shows in ad vocating that "all the factors of pro duction should first of all strive to increase the joint product of in dustry and allow no quarrel about shares to interfere with that." Discusses Why Men Work The first four chapters introduce the general subject of economics with a consideration of the reasons for studying it, and then a survey of the development of the earth, its vast resources, and men as the ulti mate master. "Why Men Work" is the title of the fourth chapter in which Dean LeRossignol shows the basis of work in man's desires for making a living, for providing for his children, for getting all the ne cessities and luxuries of life. He shows that there is practically no limit to men's desires, and that this driving impulse has resulted in civi lization. Income, wealth, capital, property, and ways of making a living are ta- ken up in the next few chapters. After an historical review and "con sideration of the economic basis of civilization, he describes the organi zation of the business world and takes up in more or less detail manu facturing, raw materials, trade, sell ing, transportation. The relation ' of supply and de mand as determining the price of a commodity are dealt with in three chapters in which Dean LeRossig nol shows that desirability and scar city are the forces back of the de mand and supply. "If the positive creative power of human desire had its way without restraint, there would be an abun dance of everything, but no price as everything would be free," he states in ear-marking scarcity as .the cause of both the riches and poverty of mankind. Money System Is Indispensable The money system in all its work ing phases is explained and des cribed in detail in several chapters. Its indispensability in modern busi ness in clearly shown by examples of countries like Germany and Russia which had their money removed or destroyed and soon had to establish new monetary systems in order to rise up out of the resultant ruin. The factors of production, the wage system, investment, and all oth er component parts of the economic structure, with a final discussion of public revenue and expenditure are considered in the later chapters of the book. Dean LeRossignol holds more or less to the classic economic theories, and stresses production and more production as the great desid eratum of the economic world, but throughout the whole book never loses sight of the human factor. His presentation of the subject is keyed around a sympathetic understanding of the reactions of the average man, who is the center personality in all (Continued to Page Two.) into a Fiji islander's headdress, to make the bravest man see a ghostly shape in a vacant dark corner and .the most courageous of women scream because of an unexpected movement on the stage. The entire action of the play is laid in a house of terrors and mys tery, the home of the late Simon Blackwell. The heirs must pass three nights in the ghostly dwell ing, and the happenings at the dead ly hour of midnight are sufficient price to pay for the fortune. . But men have dared death and high water for the sake of gold, and the characters in "Spooks" are no exception. The three nights come to an end at last, and the mystery of the play is made crystal clear. HIGH SCHOOLS WILL COMPETE IN TRACK MEET Twenty-Fourth Annual Track And Field Meet Will Be Held Here May 7-8 MAIL OUT ENTRY BLANKS Will Have Three Distinct Champion ships For Different Groups Of Secondary Schools The twenty-fourth annual track and field meet of the Nebraska High School Athletic Association will be held at the stadium Friday and Satur day, May 7 and 3. Copies of the rules adopted by the athletic associa tion and entry blanks are being mail ed out to' the schools over the state. All entry blanks are to be filled out and mailed in by April 29. . Any student of a high school which is a member of the Nebraska High School Athletic Association is eligi ble to compete in this meet, provided the contestant is eligible under the rules and regulations of this Associa tion. Any secondary school of the state accredited by the University of Ne braska may join the Nebraska High School Athletic Association on pay ment of an initial fee of two dollars and by subscribing to the rules and regulations. Awards For Each Group's Winners There will be three distinct cham pionships in the one meet. (For each championship there will be appro priate team and individual trophies.) Group I will comprise all eligible high schools that have an enrollment for this year of under 150. Group II will consist of all eligible schools with an enrollment between 150 and 300. Group III will consist of all eligi ble schools with an enrollment above 300 for the school year. The points which will be given for each group are: four places in each event, including relay, will count for points; 5 for first, 3 for second, 2 for third, and 1 for fourth. Rules Concerning Competitors The number of competitors will be 1. Three competitors. Each school may enter three men in each event. 2. Four entries. Each school may enter not more than four men in each event. 3. Unlimited team. No contestant may. compete in more than two track events exclud ing the relay. If a contestant com petes in the relay he is allowed three events with the relay being counted as one of the three. Ho limit is placed on the number of field events in which a contestant may compete. The championships will be a two day meet this year. Preliminaries will be held Friday beginning at 2 P. M. in the 100, 220, 440 yard daRhes and all field events and possibly the 880 yard run. Track events will be eliminated in the Friday prelimin aries to eipht men to each race so that only the finals will be held on Sat urday. Field event entries will be eliminated to five men in each event. This applies equally to Groups I, II, and III. Rules Concerning Expenses As to expenses, the Board of Con trol has ruled that: First, the immediate expenses of running the meet shall be taken out of the receipts. This shall include printing and medals, etc. The re ceipt money remaining after the ex penses shall be distributed as follows: Second, every team which comes to this championship paying out over 100 dollars carfare. (This applies to a maximum team of 10 men who ac tually compete.) Third, any money remaining after this expense has been paid shall be pro-rated among the various teams. This arrangement will help equalize the opportunity for participation among the distant and near schools. Announce Awards The 'following are the prizes: Individual: In each group cham pionship there will be medals for (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FORECAST Tuesday: Mostly fair. Weather Conditions Except for light snow in the lower Lake region and light rain in the New England states and in Florida, fair weather prevails throughout the country this morn ing. It is cool for the season throughout the eastern half of the country and in the lower Mis souri valley and the southern Plains, with frosts in Nebr ska, Iowa, and Illinois. It is warmer than normal in the Rocky Moun tain states and westward to the Pacific coast. THOMAS A. BLAIR, Meteorologist. Vanity Real Reason For Personal Adornment, Says Museum Lecturer Development of Varying Styles of Clothing and Customs of Adorn ment Traced by Marjorie Shana felt in Last of Sunday Addresses "Why do we wear clothes?" in quired Miss Marjorie Shanafelt, in her address at the Museum Sunday afternoon, April 25, on the subject "Peacocks All," the last of this year's series of museum lectures. "Why for protection we all an swer and for modesty's sake," she continued. "However, the first rea son is rather refuted when we consid er that some of the things we wear are rather poor protection. If it were a case of modesty, we'd all wear the same thing, but wo don't. Mod esty seems to differ in different countries; for example, the Japanese woman is extremely modest about her feet, while the Hottentot woman's modesty is limited to the necessity of keeping covered a small tuft of hair on the back of her head. "The fact is," declared Miss Sha nafelt, "that clothes are more for the sake of adornment, for the ,sake of vanity." Colored Illustrations Shown Turning to the various manifesta tions of vanity, the speaker proceed ed to illustrate her points with col ored slides. Teeth were subject of her first illustration. In Borneo it is the custom to fjle the teeth in various shapes and to dig holes in them into which silver plugs are placed. Those races wearing little clothing are. extremely fond of ornaments; for example, the Indian girls who wear rings in their noses. Similar adornments are ear rings, larger ones of which are worn each year until often the lobes of the ear are pulled down to the shoulders by the weight ; brass coils worn around the neck, arms and legs, the number on each individual depending on the wealth of the family. Twenty-one is the number commonly worn and thirty is the most ever seen on one person. The weight of these coils on. a sin gle person often aggregates from fif ty to sixty pounds. In the intense heat these are apt to get so hot that they have to be cooled, and great infections form around the edges of these coils. It is a case, however, of beauty at any price. The recent advertisement of Mar shal Field in Chicago, announcing the new style of four or five rings worn around the neck makes one wonder if America, the land of pro gress, is going to sacrifice health for vanity, Miss Shanafelt said. Some Customs Injurious Though the majority of these customs are harmless, there are some which are very injurious; for ex ample, the small shoes have crippled the feet of Japanese women, and the small waists in vogue in the early days of this country ruined many people's lives.. Other expressions of the vanity prevalent in human nature are the habits of painting the flesh, first used by the Egyptians and Japanese and now "in style," to some degree, in nearly every country; and tattoo ing the body, a painful method of (Continued to Page Two) Farmers' Fair Committees Finish -f Plans For Parade And Exhibitions 3 Amos Gramlich, chairman of the pa rade declared today that the largest pa rade ever made up in connection with Far mers' Fair would make its way through O street at 12 o'clock noon next Saturday. The parade is one of the best single attrac The band tions of the Farmers' Fair. Many people decide to attend the fair only after seeing the parade, and it is generally a great drawing medium. Through the parade we try to visualize to the public the nature of the instruction in Agriculture," Gram lich said. The educational ex position is almost complete except for The prise the the setting up. Glen rBuck, chairman of the educational exposition will make this part of the Farmers' Fair far reaching and effective in showing the public what the Ag college stands for. The guide book is finished, an nounced Arthur Hauke, editor of this official informative medium of the Fair. It is a larger book than those of previous fairs, and contains everything required to direct the vis itor around Ag Campus. Some of these books will be distributed during the week. They will be given out dur ing the parade Saturday, and one R. O. T.C. Will Parade In Honor Of Sponsors The R. O. T. C. regiment will parade on the drill field this af ternoon, honorary to all the regi mental sponsors. The sponsors will assemble at Nebraska Hall at 4:45 o'clock, and will be escorted to the drill field by a committee of Juniors. A feature of the review will be the presentation of letters to the six high men on the rifle team, Lammili, Shafer, Otradorsky, Madsen, and Skinner. While the parade is in progress the letter winners will be called forward, and Athletic Director rGish will make the presentation. NOVEL EXHIBIT FOR ENGINEERS Standard Bridge Company Of Omaha Erecting Model on University Campus TO FINISH IN FOUR DAYS Construction on the Transverse Joist Girder Type bridge, which will be the feature exhibit of Engineer's Week was begun this morning in the open space between the Administra tion Building and the Armory. The big pile driver, which will drive the eight steel pilings was set up last night Six engineers from the Standard Bridge Company of Omaha, which is putting up the structure free of charge, will do the actual work of construction but University Engin eers will be on hifhd during the con struction. Splendid Type Of Highway Bridge This type of bridge, an invention by Robert Drake of the Standard Bridge Company, is generally con ceded to be a splendid type of high way bridge, although it was invented only five years ago. The one on the campus will be an exact duplicate of the service bridges erected by the company. It will run north and south, being twenty feet wide, and thirty feet long, long enough to span an ordinary creek. The floor of the bridge will be only four feet above the ground, and will rest on eight pilings twenty-four feet in length. After its completion the bridge will be painted white and will be illum inated during Engineer's Week by flood lights. The construction engineers hope to complete their work in four days, but their success will depend largely upon the conditions they encounted in driving the pilings. The pile driver is operated by a team of horses, the company not deeming it worth while to send out an engine for this single job. wagon and the Farmers' Fair. Hick Band winning Agronomy float of 192S Farmers' Fair. will be handed out with each admis sion ticket at the gate. The publicity committee has made arrangements to take many scenes of Farmers' Fair Saturday. Moving pictures will be taken cf everything. James Jenson, member of the com mittee has been placed in charge of the pictures by the chairman. Two big dances will be held Sa'ur- day, and Melvin Lewis reports that a large new floor is be:n construct ed for the out-of -doer dance. It will be worked into good condition the night before the Fair, when tl.e Ag College students will have a dance REED EXPLAINS ENTRANCE PLANS IN RADIO TALK To Regulate Entries From Low est Fourth Of High School Class WILL REDUCE FAILURES Propose To Give Psychological Tests To the Students From the Low Groups (University News Service) In a radio talk Monday afternoon, University Examiner A. A. Roed of the University of Nebraska, outlined plans which have been recommended by the University Senate, to reduce the number of failures among stu dents by regulating the registration of students who come from the low est fourth of their high school gradu ating classes. Investigations have convinced university authorities that these are the students causing the most difficulty. The proposed plan will go into ef fect September 1, 1927, and will re quire psychological tests of all stu dents from the low group to deter mine their fitness for college edu cation, and to prevent their regis tration in subjects in which they would be handicapped for lack of ability. Graduate Student Studies Problem A graduate student who studied the problem in 1925 found that 77 percent of the freshmen who were sent home during a period of three years were from the lowest fourth of their high school classes, 17 per cent were from the third quarter, and only 4 percent from the second, and but 2 percent from the highest fourth. More recent studies of 239 stu dents from 142 Nebraska high school who entered the University in 1924, confirmed the first .investigations, and showed, Prof. Reed said, that there is a wide possible application of the use of the academic rank of students in high Bchools in predict ing their college achievements. Find Interesting Proof While 80 percent of the highest one-fourth were still in school, only 2 out of 42 of those from the lowest quartile were able to survive aca demic rigors for more than the first three semesters, and these were failing in 14 percent of their work. Twelve were suspended flor delin quencies or were permitted to with draw before formal suspension. Eighteen were in the university one semester or less. Six failed to make enough credit to get on the regis trar's records. Of the remaining, 12 were delinquent in 42 percent of their work, 7 were in school two se mesters and were delinquent in 34 percent of their work. Fifteen were in university three semesters, and were delinquent in 16 percent of their hours. The change is expected to furnish a precedent for possible future exten sion of the psychological tests in di recting registration of students into most useful channels. For the other great class of stu dent failures those who come to the university and consider the course as a mere sideline, the university has only one remedy and that is sever ance of connection with the univer sity. GRADDATB COLLEGE BULLETIN ISSUED No Changes Hare Been Made; Col lege Has, At Present, Thirty Nine Departments The 1926-27 Bulletin of the Uni versity of Nebraska Graduate Col lege has just been issued. No changes have been made and the program r the coming term will be practically the same as that followed this year. The College was first organized in 1886, but did not become the Graduate College of the University of Nebraska until 1909 when the charter of the University was amend ed. Since its organization the Col lege has made considerable progress having at present thirty-nine depart ments. The greatest growth has come in the field of chemistry, that department having the largest de mand. The departments of Educa tion and English also rank high in candidates for degrees. Professor L. A. Sherman, dean of the Graduate College, says that ap proximately $40,000 is spent annual ly on the work of this college but that it is difficult to get candiates who are really qualified for the work. Schumann-Heinle Here May S Madame Schumann-Heink, contral to of world note ,wt1 siajr si the city auditorium under the auspices of the American Lerion M7 B, r,r-.,l not Jfay 1, as stated in a hrs in the Dailr Ke1-rn.-Vr,n i'.-r ? -.